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Bug 742464 - Show a screen presenting the existence of extensions.gnome.org in the first run wizard
Show a screen presenting the existence of extensions.gnome.org in the first r...
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 742465
Product: gnome-getting-started
Classification: Applications
Component: general
3.14.x
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
: git master
Assigned To: gnome-getting-started-maint
gnome-getting-started-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2015-01-06 15:09 UTC by Jean-François Fortin Tam
Modified: 2015-01-07 13:59 UTC
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Description Jean-François Fortin Tam 2015-01-06 15:09:52 UTC
Various people used to gnome2-levels of customizability find themselves disappointed with the bolted down core experience of GNOME 3; however, in many cases they don't know that https://extensions.gnome.org exists (and is technically awesome).

I think this would warrant a short text and screenshot/diagram on the last page of the "welcome to gnome" wizard/druid/slider thingy, with a linkbutton to open up the gnome extensions website.

Present it as a way to customize and extend gnome, similar to Firefox's extensions/add-ons system, etc.


There are power users out there that have no idea the GNOME3 extensions system exists, which causes needless pain. I can't really fault them because this isn't actually announced anywhere in the UI (and not even in the general GNOME user manual in Yelp).
Comment 1 Jean-François Fortin Tam 2015-01-06 15:21:59 UTC
Website also affected (see bug 742465)
Comment 2 Jakub Steiner 2015-01-06 15:31:16 UTC
Getting started is about hand-holding an overwhelmed newbie in a completely new environment. More information we confront them with, the worse of a job we're doing. Release notes/website is a better place for mentioning extensions.
Comment 3 Jean-François Fortin Tam 2015-01-06 17:01:03 UTC
The website idea occured to me afterwards, and I could agree that it could be a better place for this actually (unless anyone else thinks it could make sense in the first start tour/wizard/thing)...
Comment 4 Oliver Propst 2015-01-07 10:01:01 UTC
+1 for the website rather then the initial wizard (also agree we should be very careful about not overwhelming the user with to much info in the initial wizard).
Comment 5 Jean-François Fortin Tam 2015-01-07 13:59:58 UTC
Alright, let's turn this solely into a main website wishlist for when the extensions website has been improved enough :)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 742465 ***